Posted on 11/22/2019 8:28:28 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Amanda Ramirez — the New Jersey woman who fatally stabbed her twin sister Anna Ramirez to death — has been sentenced to 6 years in prison.
Amanda, 27, somberly received the news as she stood in Camden County Superior Court on Thursday, the Associated Press reported.
Both the prosecutor’s office and Amanda’s attorney Jordan Zeitz did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.
After the judge handed down her sentence, Amanda issued a tearful apology, captured in a clip obtained by NJ.com, saying she never wanted her sister to die.
“I know there’s nothing I can say to justify what I did,” Amanda said before completely breaking down. “I just want to make it clear that I never had intentions of taking my twin sister’s life. If I could take back what I did, I would in a heartbeat.”
“Having to live with the fact that she’s no longer alive is devastating,” Amanda continued. “I just want to apologize to my family for putting them through this. I hope that they can all forgive me.”
Zeitz spoke out on behalf of Amanda prior to the sentencing, explaining to Judge Edward McBride that the killing was a result of Amanda suffering from “postpartum depression” and “emotional issues” from pregnancy.
“She now is going to remember this for the rest of her life,” Zeitz said in court, according to NJ.com. “The sentence you are going to impose is going to pale in comparison to the life sentence she’s already serving.”
We would ask that you follow what the family wants — to get her back to them so they can heal quicker,” Zeitz said, NJ.com reported.
Amanda’s family had pleaded with the judge to give Amanda a more lenient sentence, according to the outlet.
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My guess is that this woman’s story has already been optioned for a movie or somesuch.
Peggy Noonan stabbed George Will?
I was hoping Kathy Griffin did that to Bill Maher.
Rare. Usually twins are cohorts, not enemies.
Hormones are irrational.
Attempted suicide?
There is another Twin-Murder case, where two women are speeding in a car, fighting over the wheel. The car shoots over a cliff in the forest while the girls are seen slapping each other’s face and pulling each other’s hair according to a witness. The car crash lands, and only one twin walks away, but which girl? One had already gambled most her money away.
These two may have been of Russian descent.
They had been owner-operators of a successful fitness gym, when they began to have business disagreements that became deeply personal. This was about two or three years ago.
Its sick she only got 6 years.
It’s really such an awful story. They were both four-sheets-to-the-wind.
“She now is going to remember this for the rest of her life,” Zeitz said in court, according to NJ.com. “The sentence you are going to impose is going to pale in comparison to the life sentence she’s already serving.”
I don't want to hear about the patriarchy when I see stuff like this.
Correction: the quote I included was from the killer’s representative, not the judge. But it’s clear the judge sympathized with the argument. You see, she’s really the victim here, her feeling are what matters.
Attempted suicide?
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That would have been my ‘defense’...
I thought I was stabbing myself and when they told you that you had a ‘twin’ deny it and tell them to produce her/him.
The old chestnut about the two boys that killed their parents.
“Take mercy on them your honor, they are orphans”
“ Attempted suicide?”
LOL.
Peggy Noonan stabbed George Will?
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I have posted things along the same lines about these two being twins. Nobody commented not even a single time. I will tell you that what you just did is very funny and I definitely understand it. But I will probably be the only one who comments. So we both are in this together. I give you two thumbs up.
If the departed sister struck the first blow and was the one who pulled out the knife, why isn’t this a case of self defense?
Lol! That’s what I was going to post.
As an identical twin I have very mixed emotions about this entire story. First of all the circumstances are more than just vague. Second of all what is their history? As children I physically fought with my brother but weapons never entered into the equation. We haven’t touched each other aggressively in over 50 years! There’s a whole lot more here than meets the eye. The sentence is too light under any circumstance.
Or maybe that’s Anna and she would have gotten away with it if it weren’t for those meddling kids!
6 years for killing another human out in 2 shame full the way our system views life
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